Poll: 72% of Americans Say Immigrants Come to the United States for Jobs and to Improve Their Lives

CATO ^ | 04 27 2021 | Emily Ekins and David Kemp

[yesthatjallen]

The Cato Institute 2021 Immigration and Identity National Survey, a new national survey of 2,600 U.S. adults, finds that nearly three‐​fourths (72%) of Americans believe immigrants come to the United States to “find jobs and improve their lives” while 27% think immigrants come to obtain government services and welfare.

Support for More Immigration Is on the Rise

Support for more immigration has tripled from the mid‐​1990s when about 10% of the public supported more immigration and two‐​thirds wanted less. Today 29% of Americans want more, 38% want to maintain current levels, and 33% want less.

Democrats’ views largely account for this shift. Starting around 2008–2010, Democratic support for more immigration rose from about 20% to 47% today.

70% of Democrats Say Racist Beliefs Drive Desire for Less Immigration

Seventy percent (70%) of Democrats say racist beliefs drive the desire for less immigration. In contrast 57% of all Americans, as well as 60% of independents and 88% of Republicans say a sincere interest in controlling the country’s borders is the reason.

91% of Americans Welcome Immigration to the U.S., 9% Want to Shut Down the Border

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[qaz123]

And to a statement that I made on a different post....if someone allows a post or poll like this and they are incapable of making up their own mind, their ability to vote should be taken away until they can demonstrate they can think for themselves.

[Mozilla]

Illegals need to improve life back home and improve their lives back home. Make it better for everyone. Fleeing solves nothing.

[JonPreston]

CATO = KOCH

(ignore their nonsense)

[robel]

They also think there’s enough space in the country for the 700 million people in the world living in extreme poverty. Instead of improving conditions where they live.

[vpintheak]

Yeah? Duh! I’ve known this since I was a child. And only 9% want to close the border down and not allow immigrants.
I think most of the rest of us want sanity at the border. We want to know who is coming in. Let them enter the correct way and earn their citizenship and be privileged to live in America as an American.

[gspurlock]

I’m currently studying art history in the process of learning to paint.

The “Dark Ages” were preceded by unprecedented inbound migration to the Roman Empire of external migrants from far less sophisticated societies, mostly nomadic tribes. The huge influx was what kicked off a 1000 years of destruction of the civilization and loss of technology, especially in art and architecture. No one knows what triggered the influx, maybe they just wanted a better life. . .

It took centuries for the “barbarians” to begin to acclimate to the Roman advances in technology, philosophy, society and culture. By then, most of the advances materially and philosophically had been destroyed. Eventually the Renaissance began and restoration of those ancient advances began. This was made possible by scholars in monasteries (we owe a lot of thanks to early Christians) having preserved the writings of the Greeks and Romans and established schools to educate the public.

How long would it have taken to reassert advanced civilization if all of that was permanently lost, which appears to be the intent of big tech and big education.

Keep your books safe folks. They will be needed in a generation or two if we don’t get a handle on this. All cultures are not equal. And it’s not about race. It was often the light haired, blue eyed barbarians that invaded the society of dark haired, olive skin Romans.

Yes, this is an over simplification. . .it’s a comment, not a white paper.

[Bob434]

Nearly 75% of all immigrants and illegals, are on government welfare programs of some kind. It is lie that they just want to come here to work. They come here because sitting on a porch in housing that is free to them, and doing nothing is far far more lucrative than living in their own country.

In some prisons the population I. There is nearly 80% illegals.

This is not to put down true Imigrants that actually did come here looking for a better life by working hard to get it, but the truth is that near.y 75% of immigrants and illegals are on welfare, some to the tune of nearly $45,000 a year as they soak our government and hard working Americans for all they can get ‘for free’

Thanks to the constant gaslighting of the left, Americans don’t know the actual facts and think that il.egals help keep out country going strong financially. Thi is a blatant lie. The ones that come here and Immedjately go on welfare drain our economy, fill our prisons, which taxpayers then have to pay for, costing approx $145 per day per person, and raise the crime rates much higher. i.legals who are also criminals, commit far more crimes than the average American does- far higher. I have some stats fro a few decades ago, and they were really bad even back then

[butlerweave]

Illegals come to the US for the Free Stuff to send back to their home countries

[DesertRhino]

So what? So they make THEIR life better by exploiting my white picked fence America and making our life harder?

[qaz123]

It’s interesting, they say that the muslim “refugees”, from Iraq and other countries, have turned Dearborn, Michigan around. Went from a somewhat depressed area as the auto jobs went away to a vibrant economy. Funny they don’t say that so many of the folks living there are living off the taxpayer getting all the government bennie’s bestowed on them. And then, once they start popping out citizens, that birthright citizenship guarantees those checks.

As an experiment, I’d love to put out a worldwide PSA that states if you come to the US as a refugee, temporary bennies until we can find you a safe place close to you original home, no birthright citizenship for any kids you may have while here, no special food served at local schools and the cost of having any babies will be deducted from your bennies. The line of folks, at embassies and consulates, full of folks looking to tell their oppression lies and why they need to come to the US, would vanish in 5 minutes.

DML visits Dearborn, Michigan 2016 ...... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtjGGk91iFcRMcRL8gO7oEbiy7cx0XPjt

Great part when the guy driving tells him how the men have multiple wives and kids, all living in the same house, each collecting separate checks.

[Mathews]

Duh? Doesn’t mean I approve of it.

[Sirius Lee]

It took centuries for the “barbarians” to begin to acclimate to the Roman advances in technology, philosophy, society and culture. By then, most of the advances materially and philosophically had been destroyed.

Even if the leftist barbarians tear down Western Civ, some of it will be preserved, ironically enough, by the Asians. They actually value Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Beethoven.

[GnuThere]

Sounds like Frank Luntz is working for CATO now.

[rllngrk33]

I remember reading somewhere that 70% of immigrants (legal and illegal) wind up on some kind of welfare/food stamps/section 8 housing etc.

They're not coming here to work, they're coming here for all the free stuff the taxpayers are forced to provide.

[Bob434]

WHT style are you painting In now? Color a.ways tripped me up. Got frustrated- so much to understand about color in painting, my feeble mind couldn’t grasp it well enough to create the kind of beauty artists like Renoir created. Even Van Gogh’s paintings were filled with ‘lights painted with colors. I had a huge book on Van Gogh with a bunch of his writings, sketches etc. What a fascinating read it was. Rea.ly showed his struggles to paint while fighting against mental issues. The .enters were mostly between hi. And his bro. His. Bro really supported him throughout his life. Rea.ly good read if you can find the book

[windsorknot]

They’re coming for your jobs and your tax dollars.

[Zathras]

Yea I noticed too no one asked them if this was a good thing.

[Texas Fossil]

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[moehoward]

Sorta..
They come for YOUR job which improves THEIR lives.

[Texas Fossil]

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